Can't use flit to install pygam - pyproject.toml does not exist

[Miguel F. Montes]

I have been trying to install pygam from source using flit, as indicated in the docs, but I am unable to do so.

I have been running the following (from the project's root directory):

pip install flit
flit install -s

And after running flit install I get the following error:

Config file pyproject.toml does not exist

So it seems like the config toml file for installation is missing.

Environment details
Python 3.6.13
Flit 3.7.1

[Miguel F. Montes]

Upon further reading, it seems like the versions 0.12 and higher of flit use pyproject.toml instead of flit.ini.

A couple of possible fixes:

1. Follow the latest flit documentation and turn the flit.ini file into a pyproject.toml by running:

python3 -m flit.tomlify

I tried this and it seems to work.

2. Downgrade flit to version 0.12 or lower

I have not tried this, since this seems like going back to a very old version of flit.

[daniel servén]

Hi, im sorry that i never responded here.
I hope you were able to figure out a solution.
we have moved to poetry + pyproject.toml
does this work for your use-case?